The end of the world: mountain and sea disasters

Chapter 13 Python in the Rain
The long boots stepped on the wet ground and fallen leaves.

Yu Ke, wearing a raincoat and carrying equipment on his back, walked in the foggy and rainy forest.

Raise your hand to check the positioning watch. Not far ahead is a vine jungle. Adjust the angle of the front camera.

The vine jungle is a special area within Yu Ke's patrol forest area, and the reason for its formation is still an unsolved mystery.

The same type is the mushroom community just checked yesterday, but the two are in completely different states.

Not long after, Yu Ke noticed a large number of dark green vines rising up in the mist.

They are like giant kelp bushes growing in the deep sea. They should have grown on trees, but now they are rising from the ground like weeds, rising in the rain and fog. Only the tops are connected to the branches of trees, forming lines of ink in the forest. Green sill barrier.

It's just a few individual changes. According to the information left by the previous forest patrol hunter, the entire vine jungle area is close to 3 square kilometers. Such a situation that violates the laws of nature has naturally attracted the attention of the Forestry Protection Bureau.

What Yu Ke has to do is to collect samples, observe the current vine jungle, and take pictures of some possible anomalies.

Select a vine about the thickness of your wrist.

Yu Ke took out a knife from the bag on his waist and prepared to dig out a portion of tissue with slender branches and leaves to serve as a sample.

The tip of the knife penetrated the vine and cut it open. Yu Ke was surprised to find that a large number of light gray water droplets emerged from the gap. It looked like fine dust scattered during cleaning soaked in rainwater.

Is this something that's supposed to be inside the vine?
He used a test tube to contain the liquid, and then cut off part of the tissue and put it into a plastic bag. Yu Ke noticed an abnormality in the cross-section of the vine's gap. There were actually long and thin veins inside, and the liquid he just saw should have flowed out of it.

After putting away the samples, Yu Ke pointed the camera at the gap and took pictures one after another, recording these abnormalities and reporting them to the Forestry Protection Bureau after returning.

He is just a forest hunter and does not need to undertake research tasks, and he is not interested in spending time on such things.

Considering the current environment, it was obviously unrealistic to enter the vine jungle for filming. Yu Ke evacuated after completing the sample collection work.

However, just a few meters after he stepped out, the strong sensation brought by the Heart of the Wilderness made him turn around suddenly, with a look of surprise on his face.

I saw several bulges rising up among the fallen leaves on the ground.

Dark green color is faintly visible between the gaps.

Without any hesitation, Yu Ke took out the ax from his waist and quickly stepped forward to slash him.

As the grass blades flew away, a vine that looked like a snake's head came into view, and he raised his hand to catch it in the air.

"Fuck, you really have become a sperm."

Looking closer, Yu Ke found that the top of the vine looked like a pitcher plant, split into multiple petals, and the edges were full of slender thorns.

A defense mechanism evolved to protect against external attacks.

Or is it a weapon for hunting other creatures like Nepenthes?

Yu Ke glanced at the ground that had returned to its original state and put this new discovery into a plastic bag without intending to explore it further.

In a catastrophic environment, it is difficult to find patterns in the direction of changes in animals and plants. He asked himself that he was not a professional in this field.

It's better to let the professionals from the Forestry Protection Bureau have a headache.

After leaving the area of ​​the vine jungle and returning to the car, Yu Ke temporarily took off his raincoat and put it in the trunk to prevent all the rainwater from dripping from the surface into the cab, and immediately got back on the road.

Today he had to observe the herd of horned deer and look for traces of the giant python.

Because he had discovered the Snake Slough and the Jinghorn Deer King in Sancha Forest before, Yu Ke set his destination there this time.

As the car turned a corner, Yu Ke turned on the on-board computer and tuned to the channel of the Forestry Protection Bureau, trying to get information about the human-faced owl.

As soon as I opened it, a voice prompt suddenly sounded.

"You have a new message."

"All the mandrill materials you consigned at the transfer station have been sold. The total price is 87200. Please check carefully." So fast?
It was put on consignment yesterday and was sold out today, which surprised Yu Ke somewhat.

After thinking about it, I guess it was because I mentioned it at the end of the video released last night, which can be regarded as a different kind of promotion.

Close the information prompt and switch back to Lin Fang's channel.

"Recently, staff at farms outside Danhang City need to pay attention to safety and maintain a team of at least three people when entering and exiting. The Forestry Defense Bureau will catch the attacking monster as quickly as possible."

Apparently the hunting team still failed to catch the human-faced owl yesterday.

After all, we are in Jinghu Forest, and the human-faced owl is obviously more adaptable to the terrain. Even if the patrol team has off-road motorcycles, it will be difficult to track them.

"Abnormal snowfall occurred in the northern forest area of ​​​​Jinghu Forest. The snowflakes and ice crystals were black, and many beast corpses were found in the area. Supernatural phenomena are suspected. The investigation team has set out. Non-specific personnel are not allowed to approach for a short time."

It's a new emergency, and it also involves supernatural phenomena.

It's just in the north. Yu Ke's side belongs to the northeast corner, and the incident happened not in his forest area.

Just as he was thinking about what the black snow would look like, Yu Ke suddenly noticed a large number of birds rushing out of the misty jungle on the road ahead, struggling to flutter their wings and jump into the other side of the road.

It's not normal!

It's raining a lot today. Under normal circumstances, they would hide to avoid the rain.
What happened in the forest forced them to flee in the rain!

Realizing the problem, Yu Ke immediately checked his current location and confirmed that he was not far from the target location, Sancha Forest.

After parking the car, putting on his raincoat and gear, Yu Ke jogged into the dense forest.

His strong body was bursting with unprecedented vitality at this moment. Being in the wilderness, his physical strength was constantly being replenished. Yu Ke, who plunged into the fog, rushed forward completely based on his feelings. He looked up from time to time to watch the movements of the birds and looked for the source of the chaos in the opposite direction. .

Until he stepped into a forest clearing, Yu Ke suddenly stopped.

It was suddenly quiet all around.

The helmet blocked out the sound of wind and rain, and he couldn't hear the cries of birds.

Only the rain and fog were still lingering, and everything in front of me had a gray and gloomy atmosphere.

At a certain moment, Yu Ke suddenly felt something, and his breathing became rapid. He raised his head and looked up, and his eyes behind the mask suddenly shrank.

Among the branches of trees more than ten meters high, the figure of a huge python shuttles among them.

Its movement was not fast, but its diameter was close to one meter and its length was unknown, but it gave people a huge sense of oppression. What Yu Ke could see now was only a small part of its body.

Adjusting the camera angle, Yu Ke recorded this scene. This is undoubtedly very good material.

The movements at hand were not slow, and he quickly took off the sharp-toothed bow and arrow and held it in his hand. Considering the size of the opponent, Yu Ke did not choose to test this time. Instead, he directly chose explosive arrows, bent the bow and nocked the arrow, without even having to aim. Loosen the string.

The arrow shot out and exploded the moment it hit the python's body. The shock wave was wrapped in flames and spread through the rain and mist, reflecting the oval scales and the broken flesh and blood falling.

Hiss~hiss~
The severe pain made the giant python scream sharply, but Yu Ke had no intention of stopping.

His goal is to hunt this giant python, so he will not miss this opportunity.

Exploding arrows continued to fly out, leaving wounds on the body surface of the giant python, and its counterattack came quickly. Its thick and long tail broke through the rain and fog, like a giant hammer hitting the area where Yu Ke was.

Yu Ke retreated hastily, feeling awe-struck as he watched the snake's tail dent the trunk of a tree where a dozen people were hugging each other.

Even after being strengthened by the Heart of the Wilderness, his body would still be seriously injured if he received this blow, and this was just the appetizer.

Yu Ke, who had just regained his footing, was about to continue his offensive when another strong gust of wind swept over his head!

(End of this chapter)